yes, there is some frosting. But it is minimal. If you apply the glue carefully and hold the pieces together tight when glueing, you wont notice anything later. And even if you spill some of the glue on the base, if you clean it up quickly with some papertowel and maybe clean again with a little bit of spiritus, you will prevent most of the damage. You could also pin your models and only put a tiny bit of super glue on the pin. This would probalby be even more clean. With two pins in both feet you could maybe even go without glue at all. I havn't tried this yet.

I had some issues with paint sticking when I used to use spray primer. Now I apply my primer with a brush and it works fine.

Thank you.

My paint sticks better now. I wash the Minis really good with soapy water before priming and stoped using spray cans. I prime everything with airbrush now. I use the Vallejo primer which is also good for priming with the brush alone.